UPI NewsTrack articles from August 2007

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ACS to have its 234th national meeting.
August 1, 2007... BOSTON, July 31 (UPI) -- The American Chemical Society Tuesday said it has scheduled more than 9,500 presentations for its 234th national meeting next month in Boston. ACS officials said the presentations during the Aug. 19-23 meeting at...

Study: Estuary nutrient pollution worsens.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. government study suggests there has been a worsening of pollution of the nation's estuaries by eutrophication, or nutrient pollution. The assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

Roddick fast out of the gate.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- Two-time Legg Mason Tennis Classic champ Andy Roddick breezed to a second-round victory in the $600,000 event Tuesday, dispatching Czech Tomas Zib 6-4, 6-2. The top-seeded American won the hardcourt tournament...

Pakistan says 12 militants killed.
August 1, 2007... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 31 (UPI) -- Pakistan's military claims to have killed 12 Taliban supporters in a six-hour battle near the Afghanistan border. The military said the battle near the town of Miranshah in North Waziristan broke out...

So. Korea doubles efforts to save hostages.
August 1, 2007... KABUL, Afghanistan, July 31 (UPI) -- South Korea, under a new deadline to save its surviving 21 hostages in Afghanistan, reportedly prepared Wednesday to engage in talks with the Taliban. With only hours left in the latest midday Wednesday...

MLB: Arizona 4, San Diego 0.
August 1, 2007... SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Brandon Webb threw seven innings of three-hit, one-run ball Tuesday, guiding the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 4-0 win over the San Diego Padres. Webb struck out seven Padres and walked just two in improving to...

MLB: Milwaukee 4, N.Y. Mets 2 (13 inn.).
August 1, 2007... MILWAUKEE, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Geoff Jenkins hit a two-run homer in the 13th inning Tuesday, propelling Milwaukee to a 4-2 victory over the N.Y. Mets and denying Tom Glavine his 300th win. Tony Graffanino led off the 13th with a double down...

MLB: LA Angels 8, Seattle 0.
August 1, 2007... SEATTLE, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Gary Matthews Jr. and Orlando Cabrera combined for three homers and seven RBI Tuesday as the LA Angels downed the Seattle Mariners 8-0. John Lackey (13-6) scattered seven hits and three walks to gain his first...

MLB: San Francisco 3, LA Dodgers 1.
August 1, 2007... Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Pedro Felize drove in two runs and Ray Durham added another RBI Tuesday, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 3-1 win over the LA Dodgers. Noah Lowry (12-7) exhibited shaky control but held the Dodgers to just one run over...

MLB: Oakland 7, Detroit 3.
August 1, 2007... OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Jack Cust singled in the go-ahead runs in the sixth inning Tuesday as the Oakland Athletics rallied past the Detroit Tigers 7-3. Dan Haren (13-3) surrendered three runs -- two earned -- on six hits with a...

Brazilian airline sued for crash.
August 1, 2007... SAO PAULO, July 31 (UPI) -- Relatives of a man who died in last month's deadly jetliner crash in Brazil are suing the aircraft's maker and the airline in a U.S. court. Both leading Brazilian airline TAM Linhas Aereas SA and plane...

Hingis fends off feisty 18-year-old.
August 1, 2007... SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Martina Hingis knocked off Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands in the second round of the Acura Classic Tuesday but the 18-year-old went down fighting. Hingis scored the first 14 points of the second-round...

Japan minister quits over poll setback.
August 1, 2007... TOKYO, July 31 (UPI) -- Japanese Agriculture Minister Norihiko Akagi, facing a political fund scandal, quit Wednesday, taking the blame for the ruling coalition's election setback. Kyodo news service reported Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,...

Jockstrip: The world as we know it.
August 1, 2007... Byline: United Press International Vegas kids pan school cafeteria beans LAS VEGAS, July 31 (UPI) -- A survey at a Las Vegas elementary school confirms suspicions there 1s little support among kids for green beans as part of the...

Arroyo notes importance of six-party talks.
August 1, 2007... MANILA, Philippines, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said talks on North Korea's denuclearization should succeed in the interest of peace and stability. She urged diplomats from the six nations involved in the...

Watercooler Stories.
August 1, 2007... Byline: United Press International Ohio woman to pick punishment CINCINNATI, July 31 (UPI) -- An Ohio woman faces a decision: Serve two years in prison for stealing DVDs from her local library or serve six months and pay back nearly...

U.S. deaths in Iraq lowest in July.
August 1, 2007... BAGHDAD, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. military deaths in Iraq fell to 74 in July, compared with 101 in June, which commanders attribute to an increase in forces. The increase in troops U.S. President George Bush called a surge earlier this year...

South Korean exports up 20 percent in July.
August 1, 2007... SEOUL, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- South Korea Wednesday reported a trade surplus of nearly $1.5 billion for July, its 52nd consecutive month of such positive performance. The commerce and industry ministry reported that July exports rose 20 percent...

Baghdad bomb kills 15, injures 20.
August 1, 2007... BAGHDAD, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A suicide car bomber killed 15 people and injured at least 20 others Wednesday in a predominantly Shiite shopping district in Baghdad, officials said. The Interior Ministry said the explosion also badly damaged...

All trapped Chinese miners rescued.
August 1, 2007... BEIJING, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- China Wednesday reported the rescue of all 69 miners, who had been trapped since Sunday in a flooded coal mine in central Henan province. Xinhua news agency reported the first of the 69 miners emerged from the...

Iowa tanker explodes, 2,000 evacuated.
August 1, 2007... SIOUX CENTER, Iowa, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Fire investigators searched through melted debris in Sioux Center, Iowa, Wednesday, a day after a tanker truck exploded while loading a rail car. The blast in the town in northwestern Iowa triggered...

Somali native guilty in Ohio terror plot.
August 1, 2007... COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A 35-year-old Somali immigrant to the United States pleaded guilty to conspiring with terrorists to blow up a mall in Columbus, Ohio. Nuradin Abdi, 35, was arrested in November 2003, indicted in 2004 and...

UPI NewsTrack TopNews.
August 1, 2007... Baghdad bomb kills 28, injures 50 BAGHDAD, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A suicide car bomber killed 28 people and injured at least 50 others Wednesday in a predominantly Shiite shopping district in Baghdad, officials said. The Interior...

Judge: U.S. broke its own immigration law.
August 1, 2007... LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled the U.S. government broke its own immigration laws by not informing some Salvadoran detainees of their rights. U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow upheld a 1988 injunction...

Oil profit-taking precedes inventory data.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Oil prices fell in New York Wednesday as traders took profits ahead of a U.S. government report many analysts predicted would show a drop in crude stocks. The Energy Information Administration report was expected...

Poll: Clinton would beat everybody.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- If a U.S. presidential election were now Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., would defeat any opponents, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll said. The national poll of 1,005 voters conducted by telephone Friday through...

Iraq visits popular with U.S. senators.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Making visits to troops in Iraq is popular among U.S. senators, as at least 76 of them have done so in the last year, The Hill reported Wednesday. The Washington newspaper's survey found 18 senators have never...

Educated workers go to Calif., Nevada.
August 1, 2007... BUFFALO, N.Y., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- California and Nevada retain and attract the most educated workers, a Federal Reserve Bank economist's report said. California has the nation's highest retention rate of college-educated workers, with 8.2...

Obama wants U.S. troops in Pakistan.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said U.S. troops should be fighting terror more in Afghanistan and even Pakistan. In the text of a speech to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington...

U.S. job cuts said at 12-month low.
August 1, 2007... CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. job cuts fell 23 percent to a 12-month low in July, the second consecutive monthly decline, an outplacement consulting firm report said Wednesday. Planned job cuts were 42,897, down from June's 55,726, which...

Mislabeled chocolate bars recalled.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of 365 Organic Everyday Value Swiss Dark Chocolate Bars because of a labeling error. The nationwide recall was initiated when it was discovered the...

Police chase uncovers hoarded frozen cats.
August 1, 2007... DALLAS, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A Dallas man who allegedly led police on a high-speed chase in a stolen vehicle was reportedly found to have 29 frozen cats and dogs in a freezer. Ronald Teague, 61, was charged with evading arrest and detention...

WSJ newsroom bitter about Murdoch takeover.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Wall Street Journal reporters in New York and elsewhere reacted bitterly to Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion takeover of their publisher, Dow Jones & Co. "It's a sickening realization to know that this really great...

Montenegro woman has first child at 62.
August 1, 2007... PODGORICA, Montenegro, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A 62-year-old woman in Montenegro gave birth by Caesarean section to her first baby in a Podgorica clinic, after 35 years of marriage, doctors said Wednesday. Mileva Radulovic of Danilovgrad,...

Beck's ex: cocaine addiction killed him.
August 1, 2007... PHOENIX, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The ex-wife of deceased baseball player Rod Beck said she believes cocaine addiction is to blame for his death in Phoenix. A medical examiner's report has yet to be published on the former San Francisco Giants and...

U.S. stocks fall on credit market fears.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes fell Wednesday on fears of U.S. credit market fallout after Bear Stearns Cos. stopped investors from taking money from a hedge fund. The Asset-Backed Securities Fund had put nearly $900 million...

Law cloudy in Maryland infant autopsies.
August 1, 2007... BALTIMORE, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Laws and science are making it difficult for authorities trying to determine the cause of death of a Maryland woman's four premature babies found in her home. Christy Freeman, 37, was charged with first-degree...

U.S. attorney targeted after rebuff.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. attorney who was allegedly targeted for termination by the Justice Department had rejected the department's urging that he slow prosecution of a case. John Brownlee, the U.S. attorney in Roanoke, Va.,...

Space station cargo ship undocks.
August 1, 2007... HOUSTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The International Space Station's Progress 24 cargo spacecraft successfully undocked Wednesday and will incinerate as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere. The undocking occurred at 10:07 a.m. EDT, with the...

Ex-follower details life with Warren Jeffs.
August 1, 2007... LAS VEGAS, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman who grew up under the rule of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has begun revealing details of her childhood. Kathy Jo Nicholson, 36, was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus...

Anti-war band part of diplomatic mission.
August 1, 2007... CAIRO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles band Ozomatli, known for its anti-war and anti-Bush administration statements, is part of a U.S. diplomatic mission in the Middle East. Ozomatli, which serves up funk-infused Latin music, is touring...

Saudis pledge support to Iraq.
August 1, 2007... JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia's foreign minister pledged support Wednesday in Jeddah for helping Iraq achieve stability, but said Iraq is weak on border security. At a news conference after meeting with U.S. Defense...

NASA concerned about Mars rovers.
August 1, 2007... PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists said they are becoming increasingly concerned about the status of the Mars exploration rovers. NASA engineers said one rover, Opportunity, remains...

Bear Stearns funds file for bankruptcy.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Two Bear Stearns Cos. hedge funds involved in mortgage investments have filed for bankruptcy, court documents the U.S. investment bank filed said Wednesday. The Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies...

Exotic foods becoming commonplace.
August 1, 2007... CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Food trend experts predict exotic and extreme foods such as yogurt with rose petals and orange blossoms will become more common on consumer's plates. The prediction came in Chicago during the annual meeting and...

U.S. group gets Holocaust exhibit.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington plans to include the story of a 1940s U.S. citizen's group that urged help for Jews being killed by Nazis. The Bergson Group, founded in 1942 by Lithuanian Jew...

Afghans 'love' TV soap operas.
August 1, 2007... KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Television, banned under the rule of the Taliban, has become an increasingly popular escape for the people of Afghanistan. Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, television has taken off, providing...

UPI NewsTrack TopNews.
August 1, 2007... Baghdad suicide gas tanker blast kills 50 BAGHDAD, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber detonated a gas tanker truck at a Baghdad gas station Wednesday, killing at least 50 people in a colossal explosion, officials said. An Iraqi Interior...

Rice: Mideast arms package an investment.
August 1, 2007... JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Saudi Arabia's foreign minister in Jeddah on Wednesday a $20 billion Middle East arms sale was an investment. At a joint news conference, Rice said the...

Thompson raised $3.4 million in June.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Possible Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson announced he raised $3.4 million during the month of June, mostly in the southern United States. A campaign finance report filed Tuesday detailed...

Slovak soldiers suspected of smuggling.
August 1, 2007... BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Slovakia's Defense Ministry said some of its soldiers serving as peacekeepers in Serbia's Kosovo province tried to smuggle cigarettes and alcohol. Hungarian customs officers last week reportedly...

'Now 25' still Billboard's No. 1 album.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The "Now 25" hits compilation remained atop The Billboard 200 chart of U.S. album sales, fending off runs by the "Hairspray" soundtrack and Prince's new disc. The "Hairspray" soundtrack moved from No. 4 to No. 2....

Bloomberg's subway ride begins inside SUV.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Some critics complain that much of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's daily commute is spent in an SUV rather than riding public transportation. Bloomberg, who famously rides the subway to and from City Hall, is...

UPI NewsTrack Business.
August 1, 2007... U.S. stocks fall on credit market fears NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes fell Wednesday on fears of U.S. credit market fallout after Bear Stearns Cos. stopped investors from taking money from a hedge fund. The Asset-Backed...

Sunni party quits recessed Iraqi coalition.
August 1, 2007... BAGHDAD, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A Sunni Muslim political party backed out of the Iraqi governing coalition on Wednesday as the parliament went into a monthlong summer recess. The Sunni Accordance Front warned of the boycott of its five Cabinet...

U.S. manufacturing growth cools.
August 1, 2007... TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. manufacturing growth cooled but still expanded in July, a private industrial research group reported Wednesday. The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index fell to 53.8, from 56 in...

Produce becoming foodborne illness villain.
August 1, 2007... CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. food safety expert says the days when beef was the primary source of food-borne illnesses are gone -- now fresh produce is the chief villain. "Produce is where much of the action has occurred," said Michael...

Bear Stearns freezes hedge fund's assets.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Bear Stearns Cos. froze the assets of a hedge fund that had put some $900 million in U.S. mortgage investments, stopping investors from taking money from it. The fifth-largest U.S. investment bank said it...

Senators propose U.S. primary overhaul.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Three U.S. senators proposed legislation aimed at revamping the primary system used by the two main U.S. political parties to select candidates for president. Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.; Amy Klobuchar,...

Shuttle crew includes Challenger alternate.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A woman scheduled to be the first schoolteacher launched into space by the United States was nearly a passenger on the ill-fated Challenger flight in 1986. Barbara Morgan applied for the position filled for...

The Eagles ready to fly with album, tour.
August 1, 2007... LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The Eagles, a group whose crisp harmonies hit U.S. airwaves in the 1970s, are finishing its first full-length, studio album in more than 25 years. Guitarist Joe Walsh told Billboard magazine all of the band...

Study: U.S. buffalo kills spurred by trade.
August 1, 2007... CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A Canadian environmental economist has determined European demand for bison leather caused the near-extinction of U.S. buffalo. M. Scott Taylor of the University of Calgary argues the story of the buffalo...

Rumsfeld: No Tillman coverup.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a U.S. House panel Wednesday there was no coverup of Pat Tillman's death by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Tillman, who left a lucrative professional football career...

Borehole, not earthquake, caused eruption.
August 1, 2007... DURHAM, England, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A British scientist is challenging the theory that an earthquake caused the May 2006 eruption of an Indonesian mud volcano. Durham University Professor Richard Davies said the eruption was most likely...

U.S. pending home sales rise.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose for the first time in four months, a real estate industry group reported Wednesday. The National Association of Realtors' index of pending sales of existing...

New nanotech gene therapy system created.
August 1, 2007... PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have developed a technology that might one day deliver gene therapy by using magnetically directed nanoparticles. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia researchers bonded DNA segments to tiny...

Iran-U.S. artifact wrangling deepens.
August 1, 2007... CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A Chicago judge ordered Iran to have an expert testify under oath in the legal wrangling over ownership of ancient Persian clay tablets. The battle over some 300 tablets at the University of Chicago began in 1997...

New type 1 diabetes therapy discovered.
August 1, 2007... BOSTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have found a triple combination therapy that includes inflammation reduction can play a key role in type 1 diabetes treatment. The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers determined the...

Illinois license rule under scrutiny.
August 1, 2007... SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Critics said Illinois' unique policy of physically taking driver's licenses from traffic offenders leaves many people stranded without photo IDs. Illinois is the only state to take away the physical...

Chicago Police porn pranks cost $650,000.
August 1, 2007... CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The Chicago Police Department is out $650,000 because a jury found male officers harassed a female officer by putting pornography in her mailbox every day. Ann McDermott joined the force in 1997 and later...

Study: Bone marrow can restore fertility.
August 1, 2007... BOSTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists have confirmed a study that showed bone marrow can restore fertility in female mice. The research conducted at the Massachusetts General Hospital involved bone marrow transplantation given...

Jules Verne arrives in French Guiana.
August 1, 2007... PARIS, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's first automated transfer vehicle, the Jules Verne, has arrived at Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The spacecraft, the first of five such vehicles, arrived at Pariacabo harbor...

Keith Richards to write autobiography.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Keith Richards, the British guitarist who helped write such hits as "Jumpin' Jack Flash," will find out whether it's a gas, gas, gas writing about his life. A book about the Rolling Stones guitarist will be...

Top White House spy defends Gonzales.
August 1, 2007... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The top U.S. spy said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales didn't lie when he denied talking to his hospitalized predecessor about a specific wiretapping program. But Mike McConnell, the national director of...

Jones to accept new $900M bid for Barneys.
August 1, 2007... NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The Jones Apparel Group Inc. said Wednesday it plans to accept a $900 million cash bid for clothier Barneys New York Inc. from Japan's Fast Retailing Co. Fast Retailing, whose UNIQLO Co. casual apparel stores are...

Law professor claims improper punishment.
August 1, 2007... CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A law school professor in Chicago is suing for $1 million over what he calls an improper punishment over comments he made comparing black and Jewish students. John Gorby, who is neither Jewish nor African-American,...

'Racist' Australian priest put on leave.
August 1, 2007... MELBOURNE, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- An Australian Roman Catholic priest who gained international Internet notoriety for a racist rant against trespassing skateboarders has been put on leave. The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne announced Wednesday...

Gravestone repossessed from cemetery.
August 1, 2007... SPRINGVILLE, Utah, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A headstone was repossessed from a Springville, Utah, grave site after a family failed to finish payments. The family of Brady Conger paid part of the cost up front but failed to make the remaining...

Flip-flop bandit flops her first bank job.
August 1, 2007... RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Police near Richmond, Va., arrested a suspect in the case of the "Flip-Flop Bandit," who earned the nickname for wearing casual footwear in a bank robbery. The BB&T bank branch was held up Friday, and video...

Nanoparticles may aid cancer diagnoses.
August 1, 2007... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers have created gold nanoparticles capable of identifying marker proteins on breast cancer cells. The Purdue University scientists say using such tiny particles to better...

'Dallas SWAT' officer sacked.
August 1, 2007... DALLAS, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A Dallas cop featured on A&E cable TV series "Dallas Swat" has been fired after investigators accused him of having sex with a prostitute. Investigators claimed Senior Cpl. Johnny Baker, who had been with the...

Eminem lawsuit raps Apple.
August 1, 2007... DETROIT, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The music publisher of Detroit rapper Eminem has sued Apple, charging the computer giant allowed unauthorized downloads of the rapper's songs. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, publisher...

China works to separate real, fake Potters.
August 1, 2007... BEIJING, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Readers in China eager for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" must be careful about the books they buy because of the number of fakes, officials said. For example, a book bearing the same title that came out...

Technique to repair damaged retina studied.
August 1, 2007... LONDON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- British scientists have determined a special type of cells found in the eye might be used to regenerate damaged retina. The cells -- known as Muller glial cells -- have been found to be very important in...